Hook and eye.



E1. RAPPOLD.

HOOK AND EYE.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 19. 1916. RENEWED FEB. 25. I918.

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FREDERICK T. RAPPOLD, F ERIE, PEKNSYLVANIA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

HOOK AND EYE.

Patented Apr. 2, 19 18.

Application filed DecembrlE), 1916, Serial No. 1323-871. Renewed February 25 1918. Serial No. 219,155.

To all evil-cm it may concern:

Be it known that l, Fiinonnrox J. RAP- 7 row, a citizen of the United States, and

resident of Erie, in the countyof Erie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful improvements in Hooks and Eyes, of which the following is a specification. 1 i i My inventionrelates to new and useful Improvements in garment fasteners, and more particularly to a fastener commonly known as hook and eye.

The principal object of my inventionis to provide a hook and eye fastener which is especially adapted for heavy garments, such as fur coats and fur collars, also capes, scarfs, coats and the like, but may be user upon other garments equally as well.

A further object of the present invention is to providea hook and eye fastener, each of which members being formed from a length of wire, and which when engaged will be positively retained against accidental disengagement.

Another object of the invention is to provide a hook and eye fastener which is simple in construction, and is constructed in few operations and which may be placed on the market at a comparatively low cost.

The above and other objects and advan tages of the present invention will be hereinafter set forth and claimed and illus 'trated in the accompanying drawings, in

Fig. 3 is a side elevation'of the hook and eye members engaged,

Fig. 4 is a top elevation showing the mem bers engaged,

Fig. 5 is a view taken on line era-50 of Fig, 4, and showing the hook and eye members being engaged, v

Fig. 6 is a like view showing the members being disengaged.

Fig. 7 is a view of a modified form of eye, V

Fig. 8 is a view of a modified form of the unfinished hook, and Fig. 9 is a view showing the finished shape of the modified form of hook. c

Like characters of reference indicate like parts in all of the views.

numeral 5.

1 hook and eye members, the same will be designated by the letters A and B respectively.

This hook member A is formed from a length of wire indicated, as a whole, by the This length of wire is bent to afford a pair of divergent legs 6, the ends of which are looped upon themselves to provide attaching eyes 7, which are adapted to be stitched or otherwise secured to the garment.

The forward portions of these legs are extended in parallelism and then reversely bent as at S and extended in parallelism with the parallel portions of the legs 6 to provide a hook 9. The forward ends of this hook 9 are reversely bent as at 10 to provide a substantially ll-shaped portion or guide 11.

T he eye member '13 is also constructed from a length of wire, this being indicated by the numeral 19'. This length of wire 12 .is bent to a substantially ll-shaped config uration. One end of this ll-shaped member is bent to provide an attaching eye 13, while its opposite end is likewise bent to provide an attaching eye 14:.

From the eye 14, this end of the wire is extended longitudinally and between the divergent bars of the ll-shaped member to provide a tongue or keeper 15.

. The manner of engaging and disengaging the hook and eye members is substantially as followsz- As clearly illustrated in Fig. 5, the eye member 13 is engaged with the hook member A at the forward end thereof so that the tongue 15 will be in alinement with the it shaped guide 11 and free to pass therein. The eye member B is then moved longitudinally until it engages the bend 8 of the hook 10. When it is desired to disengage the members, the eye member B is simply V easily made, andthe structure has many over the structure shown in my prior patent on hook and eye umbered 564:,205 issued July 21, 1896.

Referring to these Figs. Nos. 7, 8 and 9, this form oi hook 17 and eye 18 are pretterably stamped from sheet metal and in the process of making the hookis bent on the line 9-9 as shown iii-Fig. 8.

Apertnres 19 are used for fastening the devices to various forms of garments and other members (not shown).

A tongue member 20 provided in the eye 18 and into the spaces 21 on each side of the tongue 20 the hook end 22 is adapted to be inserted This form of hook and eye has been found to be very satisfactory and successful. Each member is cheaply and advantages over the hooks and eyes now on the market.

\Vhile the form described 1 now consider to be the preferredembodiment of the invention, I am desirous of having it known that the invention may be modified in many different respects that may fairly fall Within the scope of tlie 'z'i'p'pii'tled' claim.

hat is claimed is The combination with .aneye having a resilient locking tongue which normally lies in the plane of the eye, of a hook formed ironi 'afllength of wire bent to form a subot' the eye and spring the same out of the plane of the eye upon the engagement of the eye with the hook; the Vertex of the U- shaped guide being; adapted to spring the tongue out of the planeof the eye upon the disengagement of the hook and eye.

FREDERICK J. .RAPPOLD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of l ate nts,

Washington, D. C. 

